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PREFACE 


The  object  of  the  present  little 
book  is  to  place  before  children 
those  Prayers,  Hymns,  &c.  which  it 
is  necessary  for  every  young  child 
to  learn  as  the  first  early  lesson  in 
religion,  in  a  form  which,  by  the 
prettiness  and  adaptiveness  of  the 
illustrations,  may  at  once  tend  to  in- 
terest the  child  in  the  learning  of  the 
Prayers,  and  at  the  same  time  to  re- 
fine the  mind  in  teaching  its  first 
lessons  in  taste — which  is  too  fre- 
quently vulgarised,  by  placing  in 
the  hands  of  children  such  coarse 


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and  unmeaning  illustrations  as  are 
very  generally  found  in  early  child- 
ren's books.  Therefore,  in  the  illu- 
minated decorations  accompanying 
these  Prayers,  we  have  sought  to 
avoid  idle  and  unmeaning  orna- 
ments— employing  such  as  seemed 
appropriate  and  likely  to  increase 
and  develope  the  interest  in  each 
subject  rather  than  divert  the  atten- 
tion from  it,  as  is  frequently  the  case 
in  the  ordinary  and  indiscriminate 
application  of  ornament. 


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heaven  HaUbwed  be  thy 
name,  TKy  liiiigdom 
come .  Thy  will  l>e  clone  on 
earth  as  it  is  in  heaven ,  Give 
us  this  day  our  daily  lore  ad  , 
And  forgive  us  our  trespasses 
As  we  forgive  them  thattres_ 
against  us ,  And  leadus 
not  into  temptation,  But  de_ 
liver  us  from  evil ,  For  thine 
is  the  kingdom,  the  power  anc 
Ihe  oJo:;  Tor  ever  and  ever. 

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make  us  truly  thankful  for  all  thy  great 
goodness  and  mercy,  and  I  will  en- 
deavor Oh  Lord  !  with  thy  blessing  to 
pass  this  day  without  doing  wrong, 
through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 
AMEN. 

EVENING   PRAYER. 

thank  thee  fervently,  Almighty 
rod  !  for  all  thou  hast  given  me 

ihis  day,  for  my  health,  my 
food,  my  clothing,  and  every  comfort 
I  have  enjoyed.  1  am  truly  sorry  for 
all  the  faults  I  have  committed  and 
pray  thee  to  pardon  them.  Bestow  thy 
blessings  on  my  parents,  brothers,  sis- 
ters, and  all  my  friends,  &  preserve  us 
from  danger  during  the  niyht  through 
our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.     AMEN. 


PRAYER  FOR  SICK  FRIENDS. 

lmighty  God  who  dost  help 
and  comfort  all  who  are  in 
^sickness  or  sorrow,  I  Pray 
thee  to  bestow  thy  blessing  upon  my 
dear  friend,  to  shorten  his  time  of  suf- 
fering, and  restore  him  speedily  to 
health,  and  that  he  may  be  full  of 
thankfness  for  thy  great  kindness 
and  mercy,  through  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ.    '  AMEN 


PRAYER  FOR  ABSENT  FRIENDS. 

[mighty  God  who  dost  pro- 
tect us  all  through  storm  and 
■tempest  in  every  season,  I 
pray  thee  to  preserve  all  who  travel 
by  land  or  by  water,  and  to  bless  and 
watch  over  my  dear  absent  friends, 
that  they  may  return  in  safety  to  us, 
through  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

AMEN. 


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COMMANDMENTS 
V. 

fig  onour  thy  father 
|  and  thy  mother; 
that  thy  days  may 
he  long-  in.  the  land 
which  the  Lord  thy 
God  giveth  thee. 


VI. 

'  hou   shalt  do  no 
■murder. 


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iu      shalt     not 
commit  audultry. 


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IBB  bear  false 
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bor's  house,  thouj 
shalt  not  covet  thy 
neighbour's  wife,! 
nor  his  servant 
his  mahj*-  nor 
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HE  MORNING  HYMN. 


A]  wake  my  soul,  and  with  the  sun 
™"Thy  daily  stage  of  duty  run, 
Shake  off  dull  sloth,  and  early  rise 
To  pay  thy  morning  sacrifice, 

jedeem  thy  mispent  moments  past, 
lAnd  live  this  day  as  if  the  last ; 
Thy  talents  to  improve  take  care  ; 
thyself  prepare. 


let  all  thy  converse  be  sincere, 
Thy  conscience  as  the  noon-day 
For  God's  all-seeing  eye  surveys  [clear, 
Thy  secret  thoughts  thy  works  <fc.  ways. 


k  self,  my  heaj 
with  thy  angels  bear  thy  f 
Who  all  night  long  unwearied  sing' 
High  glory  to  th'  eternal  King ! 


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THE  EVENING  HYMN 

lory  to  thee,  my  God,  this  night, 
For  all  the  blessingr  of  the  light ; 
Keep  me,  0  keep  me,  King  of  Kings, 
Beneath  thinQ  own  Almighty  wings  ! 

aorgive  me  Lord,  for  thy  dear  Son, 
The  ill  that  I  this  day  have  done  ; 
That  with  the  world,  myself  and  thee, 
I,  ere  I  sleep,  at  peace  may  be 

each  me  to  live,  that  I  may  dread 
The  grave  as  little  as  my  bed 
Teach  me  to  die,  that  so  I  may 
Rise  glorious  at  the  awful  day 


llftl  ^Ct  my  sou*  on  ^iee  rePose  •     [close, 
Ik— £  And  may  sweet  sleep  mine  eye-lids 
Sleep,  that  shall  me  more  vig'rous  make, 
God.  when  I  awake. 


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PLATE    I. 

The  Lord's  Prayer  is  primed  in  letters  of 
gold  upon  a  ground  of  blue,  which  the  early- 
painters  considered  the  most  appropriate  for 
sacred  subjects,  as  being  the  color  of  the 
heavens.  In  the  ornamental  border  are  intro- 
duced the  figures  of  a  boy  and  girl  repeating 
their  nightly  prayers,  the  boy  surrounded  with 
roses,  a  flower  which  poets  have  selected 
as  an  emblem  of  the  freshness  and  beauty  of 
childhood  ;  and  the  girl  with  lilies,  emblematic 
of  female  innocence  and  modesty. 

PLATE    II. 

The  Belief,  or  summary  of  the  great  prin- 
ciples of  the  Gospel,  written  upon  a  tablet  of 
gold.  It  is  surrounded  by  an  ornamental  scroll, 


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containing   the   names  of  the    apostles    who 
preached  the  Gospel  at  the  peril  and  eventual 


sacrifice  of  their  lives. 


PLATE    III. 


A  Form  of  Morning  and  Evening  Prayer, 
surrounded  by  an  ornamental  border,  such  as 
decorated  the  rich  Prayer  Books  of  our  devout 
forefathers,  before  the  invention  of  printing, 
when  the  skill  of  the  greatest  artists  of  the  age 
was  lavished  upon  the  decoration  of  the  Bible 
and  Books  of  Prayer. 


PLATE    IV. 


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A  Grace  or  Thanksgiving  before  and  after 
meat.  On  one  side  is  seen  the  wheat  sheaf, 
representing  bread,  the  great  staple  food  of 
man  ;  on  the  other  side,  the  vine,  represents 
wine,  which,  with  water,  formed  the  only 
drink-  of  mankind  in  the  early  ages  of  the 
ste  world.    At  the  top  are  seen  a  group  of  children 

reaping  and  gathering  wheat,  and  another 
gathering  grapes,  and  pressing  out  the  juice 
in  the  manner  practised  in  wine  countries. 
Below  is  a  representation  of  the  Lord's  Supper 
after  the  celebrated  picture  of  Leonardo  da 


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Vinci,  painted  on  the  wall  of  a  refectory  or 
dining-hall  of  a  convent  at  Milan — now,  un- 
fortunately, nearly  destroyed. 

PLATE    V. 

A  Prayer  for  sick  Friends  and  one  for  ab- 
sent Friends.  On  the  left,  at  the  top,  a  me- 
dallion is  interwoven  in  the  ornament,  repre- 
senting a  little  girl  in  an  attitude  of  prayer. 
Opposite  to  this  is  a  similar  medallion,  with  a 
group  representing  care  and  attendance  on  the 
sick  :  they  are  surrounded  with  heartsease,  a 
flower  which  the  French  call  pensee  (thought) 
and  frequently  use  it  as  an  em  Mem  of  kindly 
thought  towards  others.  Our  English  name 
pansy  is  a  corruption  of  the  French  pensee. 
Below,  a  little  boy  is  repeating  his  prayer;  and 
opposite  to  him  are  a  mother  and  children  tak- 
ing leave  of  some  dear  friend,  whom  a  vessel 
is  rapidly  carrying  away  from  them.  These 
medallions  are  surrounded  by  forget-me-not, 
a  little  flower  which  several  nations  of  Europe  ^L 
call  by  this  name  ;  the  German  is  vergeismein- 
nicht.  It  was  probably  in  the  simplicity  of 
early  manners  given  as  a  token  of  remem- 
brance at  parting. 


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PLATES    VI    AND    VII. 

The  Ten  Commandments.  On  Plate  VI. 
Moses  is  seen  receiving  the  tablets  from 
heaven ;  and  on  Plate  VII.  an  aged  man  is 
occupied  in  reading  them,  whilst  on  either  side 
a  child  is  attentively  studying.  The  form  of 
these  tablets  is  that  used  for  the  command- 
ments in  all  early  churches,  and  a  still  older 
example  of  this  particular  form  exists  on  the 
arch  of  Titus,  at  Rome,  erected  on  his  return 
from  the  conquest  of  Jerusalem,  where,  with 
the  seven-branched  candlestick  and  other  spoils 
of  the  temple,  two  tablets  are  represented  of 
precisely  this  form,  which  may  possibly  have 
been  the  tablets  on  which  the  Commandments 
were  preserved  in  the  Jewish  temple;  the 
originals  were  probably  of  gold,  or  they  would 
not  have  tempted  the  Roman  conquerors  to 
carry  them  away. 

PLATE    VIII. 

The  Morning  Hymn,  the  ornaments  of 
which  are  intended  to  convey  an  idea  of  the 
beauty  of  nature  in  the  early  morning,  repre- 
sented by  luxuriant  vegetation,  and  the  glory 
of  the  rising  sun. 


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The  Evening  Hymn,  which  is  intended  to 
convey  an  impression  of  the  comfort  and 
shelter  of  home  during  the  night ;  while  the 
Gothic  casement  discovers  the  wonders  of  a 
starry  sky,  which  the  elder  children  are  con- 
templating with  admiration,  while  their  little 
sister  has  just  fallen  asleep  over  the  last  lines 
of  her  Evening  Hymn. 


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